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IN THE 550T1I ANNIVERSARY <IF TIIK FONDATION 
OF TIIK crrV OF NEAVAKK - NKW .IKRSFY 
TU THE IIONORAIILE 

THOMAS L. RAYMOND 

.\LVY()R. 

THE AUTHOR 

IN APPRECIATION OF THE HOSPITALITY ACCORDED 

GRATEFULLY OFFERS. 



HAUlilSON. N. 
MCMXVI 




— 6 



CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY 
OF NEWARK 

(By frank J. URGUHART) 



16(;6 — Newariv .v;is settled. 

1667 — It was agreed by all planters and 
inhabitants that th>y should be- riilud and 
governed by such magistrates as they 
should annually choose among themselves. 

1668 — The first church, called "Meeting 
house" by the settlers, was built. It was 26 
feet wide, 36 feet long, and fronted on Broad 
Street, a little south of Branford place. In 
1708 a second church wias erected, which 
stood stands on the other side of Broad 
Street was begun in 1787 and opened for 
public worship on the first of Jaunuary, 
17111. On its completion, the old second 
church was converted into a court house, 
for wliich purpose it was used until 1807. 

1668 — First General Assembly was held 
in Elizjbetbtow'n. delegates from Newark 
being Robert Treat and Samuel Svvaine. 

1668 — May 20. th. Commissioners of the 
Town of Newark and Elizabethtown met at 
"Divident Hill", to fix the boundaries 
between the settlements. 

1668 — The first grist mill was built and 
Etood on the north side of First River or 
Jlillbrook, near the junction of Clay and 
High Street. 

1669 to 1672 — Two courts were held 
annually, verdict being by jury of six men. 

1670 — Newark's first hotel. Located in 
the home of Thomas Johnson, on the 
northeast corner of Broad ;uid Walnut St., 
on the site of the present Grace Episcopal 
Church. It was called an "ordinary". 

1672 to 1675 — Four courts were annually 
held. In the latter year, the whole province 
was placed under county and other courts, 
and the rules of the selectmen terminated. 

1673 — Newark's population included 86 
men. 

1673, September 6 -^ It was ordered, "in 



consitleration of the present dangers" — 
unre.st of the Indians — that every man in 
tov.ii. under sixty and orer sixteen, should 
ircct tcgc-ther with their arms. 

1613 — New York surrendered to the 
Dutch, and the subjnbation of New .Jersey 
followed. 

A transfer of allegiance to the Republic 
of Holland v as demanded of the people of 
Newark, and it appears that seventy — 
three took the oath, eleven being absent. 

1674 — By Treaty of Westminster, New 
Jersey was restored to England, and Philip 
Carteret returned as Governor. 

167.5 — Trouble feared with the In- 
dians. It proved groundless. 

167.J — The church wrts fitted up for a 
defense the men of the town working in 
turn; two flaukers were placed at the 
corners and the wall between the lath and 
outside filled with stone-. 

1676 — The first school was established. 
John Cattin was appointed schoolmaster. 

1076 — Newark's first Shade Tree Com- 
mission — Extract from the town minute 
book: "February 6. The Tow^u, seeing some 
trees spoiled by barking or otherwise the 
Town had agreed that no green tree within 
the town as is marked witih N. shall be 
barked or felled, or otherwise killed under 
the Penalty of Ten Shillings so killed". 

1679 — A watch wias ordered to be kept in 
the night and one fourth part of the town 
should take, turns carrying arms to church. 
This was during the time when Sir Ed- 
mund Andros, Governor of New York, 
asserted authority over New Jersey on 
'behalf of the Duke of York — The people of 
Newark, in common with other settlements, 
resented Andros' in-^erference. 

1679, March 29 — The town having met 



7 — 



together, gave their positive answer to the 
Governor of New York, that they had taken 
the oath of allegiance to the King, and 
fidelity to the present Government, and 
until they had sufficient order fron his 
Majesty, would stand the same. 

1682 — Newark had a population of about 
500, having 10,000 acres of town lands and 
40.000 acres of outlying plantations. 

1683 — The first poor person necessary 
to provide for. 

1695 -The first saw mill was commenced 
1696, December 10th — By virtue of a 
patent granted by the Lorus Proprietors of 
East New Jersey, the public lands and 
streets had been vested in John Curtiss. 
John Treat, Theophilus Pierson and Robert 
Young. In 1804, by act of Legislature, this 
trust estate was declared to be invested in 
the inhabitants of the township — The 
property consisted of the old burying 
ground. WMshington Park. Military Park, 
the watering place and tlie public streets 
as then laid out. 

1698 — First tan yard established by 
Azariah Crane. 

1708 — Second church building erected. 
1714 — First school house provided this 
year or a little earlier. 

1719 — The assessment of a town rate 
for the support of the poor commenced. 

1721 • — Free stone was quarried for 
market. 

1736 — Cider making well established. 
1745-46 — Two great riots — jail broken 
open by mobs, and persons held by land 
suits in favor of the English proprietors. 
iset at liberty. 

li'46 — Trinity Church was completed. 
1747 — College of N. J., afterwards Prin- 
ceton College, started at Elizabethtown. re- 
moved to Newark in 1748 — college re- 
mained in Newark about eight years, with 
Rev: Aaron Burr, as president. 

1756, February 6 — Aaron Bnrr, after- 
ward vice-president of the United States, 
was born in Newark, just before his father 
moved to Princeton. 

1761 — First lodge of Free Masons in 
New Jersey — St. John's, established. 

1765 — An Act of Assem-bly was passed 
authorizing the construction of a road and 
ferries over the Passaic and Hackensack to 
connect with the road prevlonsly existing 
from Bergen Point to Paulus Hook. This 
was the only direct road to New York, by 
land, for many years — The present plank 



road follows, very nearly, the route then 
constructed. 

1774 — The first Newark Academy 
founded. 

1770. November — Washington was sta- 
tioned in Newark with an army of 3,000 
men, for five days. 

1780 — The population of Newark was 
about 1,000. One hundred and forty-one 
dwelling houses, thirty-eight in limits of 
what was afterward known a-s North Ward, 
fifty in the South Ward, twenty-eight in 
East Ward, and twenty-five in West Ward. 

1780 — Battle of Springfield. At that 
time, part of Springfield belonged to the 
City of Newark. 

1780 — The Academy refurred to above, 
which stood in Washington Park, w-as bur- 
ned by the English troops. Martyrdom of 
Justice Joseph Hedden. 

1788 — First Fourth of July celebration 
in Newark of which there is record. Parade 
was industrial rather than military, the 
following trades being represented: Tanners 
and curriers, stone cutters, masons, scythe- 
makers, blacksmiths, coach-makers, wheel- 
makers, weavers, dyers and fullers, ship 
carpenters. 

1790 — Newark's first industry establi- 
shed about this time was shoemaking. 

1791 — Present First Presbyterian Church 
completed. 

1791 — Newark's first newspaper. Wood's 
Gazette, started May 13. 

1791 — First hanging of record. William 
Jones, for the murder of Samuel Shotwell. 
Services held in First Church just before 
the execution, with sermon preached by the 
pastor. 

1792 — In this year, or a little later, first 
free schools in Newark and probably in the 
tTnited States, opened by Moses N. Combs, 
Newark's pioneer manufacturer. 

1792 — First bridges over Passaic and 
HaChensaek Rivers completed. 
1792 — The second Academy established. 

1796 — Sentinel of Freedom established. 
It denounced slavery, New Jersey being a 
slave State. 

1797 — At a meeting held in Newark, In 
May. the directors of the Society for the 
Promotion of I'seful Arts, attended by 
Alexander Hamilton, it was decided to lo- 
cate the town of Paterson r named after the 
then Governor of the State), on the banks 
of the Passaic. They appointed two of their 
number to fix the precise spot. 



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1797 — Newark's first band of music, 
"Composed of our own citizens", tool< part 
in tiie Fourth of July ,celebration 

1788 — Citizens, tlirough tlie First Cliurcli, 
contributed $1.">.5 and 160 pair of shoes, in 
aid of the yellow fever sufferers of New 
York City. 

17SS — President Adams, the first of the 
name, passed through Newark three times, 
usually making short stops. 

ISO I — Newark spoken of in newspaper 
as "the most flourishing town in the State". 

ISOO or thereabouts — Under a special 
law, to ascertain the ex act, original boun- 
daries of the principal and most ancient 
ftrccts ifl Newark, every encroachment 
beyond private property lines, was moved 
b.Tck. Broad street was thus restored to its 
original width, 132 feet except at a Military 
Park; Market street to 88 and Washington 
street to 66 feet. 

1800 — The first company to supply 
Newark with water was chartered. The 
principal supply of water came from springs 
and wells located in what is now the Eighth, 
Eleventh and Fifteenth Wards. There were 
in all seventy-three wells and springs. 
Water was collected iu small reservoirs 
about 150 feet south from the line of what 
is now Seventh avenue. 

1801 — At a mass meeting of citizens 
rules were drawn up to prevent unlawful 
residence of free negroes or such as falsely 
(Icclared themselves to be free. To prevent 
nrgro s'aves from meeting together in an 
unlawful manner. To prevent the unlawful 
absence of Newark slaves from their owners 
after ten o' clock at night. 

1801 — Committee on Sabbath observance 
announces that after M.irch 10, it will stop 
a"l gaming horse racing and other forms of 
Sa.bbath breaking such as unnecessary 
travel by :tages, or in any other way. 

1801 — First Baptist Church established. 

1801 — .Jewelry was manufactured by 
"Epaphras Hinsdale". 

1S03 — Female Charitable Aid Society 
organized. 

1804 — Newark Banking and Insurance 
Ccmpany established first bank in Newark. 

1804, February — By Act of the Legisla- 
ture, all children of slave parents, born 
after the 4th of July, of that year, were 
declared free, but those who were born 
previous to that date, were still in bondage, 
and, accordingly, there were sixteen male 



and fifteen female slaves tor life. The towh 
plot contained 844 houses, 207 mechanics 
.shop, five public buildings, three lumber 
.yards, four quarries. There were eight 
churches, nine clergymen, ten physicians, 
eighty — one farmers, fourteen lawyers, 
sixteen school teachers, thirty-four mer- 
chants and five druggists. 

1806 — Newark was noted for its cider, 
its ciuarrlers, manufacturing of carriages. 
coaches, lace and shoes. One-third of the 
inhabitants, it is said, were constantly em- 
ployed in the manufacturing of shoes alone. 

1806 — First Methodist Episcopal Chur:h 
established. 

1807 — At a mass meeting to protest 
against British outrages on American com- 
merce, a committee was appointed to draw' 
up suitable resolutions of protest. A copy 
of this document was sent to President 
Thomas Jefferson. 

1807 — Rev: Alexander Mc Whorter, 
Newark's sturdy old Revolutionary pastor, 
died. July 20. 

1S08 — Second Presbyterian Church esta- 
blished. 

ISIO — Hatting trade established by 
William Rankin. 

1810 — Population, probably of county, 
given as 8,008. 

1811 — County Court House built on pre- 
sent site of Grace Episcopal Church. 

1811 — Newark Fire Insurance Company 
incorporated. 

1812 — Essex Brigade of tnilitia ordered 
to detail, arm and etjuiped 441 men and offi- 
cers, as Essex's quota of the .5,000 called for 
from the State: March 17. 

1812 — During the war, a draft of every 
seventh man was made of the people of 
Newark. A volenteer company of riflemen 
was also formed, of which Theodore Frelin- 
ghuysen took command, and when New 
York was supposed to be in danger, nearly 
one thousand men from Newark gave active 
aid in throwing up entrenchments on Brook 
lyn Heights. 

1815 — Under the provisions of an Act 
to authorize the inhabitants of the Town- 
ship of Newark to build or purchase a poor 
house, the farm of Aaron Johnson was 
inirchased and in 1818 five acres of land 
adjoining were added to this farm. This 
property was known as the "Poor House 
Farm". 

1S19 to 1833 — Joint meetings were held 



in the session liouse of the First Presbyte- 
rian Church. 

1819 — Seoh Boyden makes first patent 
leather ever manufactured in this country. 

1820 — Population was 6.507. 

1821 — The total amount realized from 
taxes for the year, including dogs tax. was 
$3,184. 

1823 — By Act of the Legislature the 
following property was invested in the town- 
ship. Orange Park. Lombardy Park, por- 
tion of Lincoln Park and parts of Wash- 
ington, market and Mulberry street. 

1824 — First Roman Catholic Church. St. 
John's, established. 

1826 — There were still living in Newark 
161 inhabitants who were alive during the 
War cif Independence, fifty-six of whom 
were engaged in that war. 

1826 — Population of Newark was, S.017; 
of these 7.237 were within and 780 outside 
of the township: there were 491 colored 
people. 

1826. July 4 — The people of Newark 
held a jubilee, to commemorate the fiftieth 
anniversary of the Declaration of Indepen- 
dence. 

1826, July 4 — Seth Hoyden discovered 
process of making malleable Iron. 

1830 — A much traveled man says of 
Newark, that after visiting many of the 
cities and towns of the United States, he 
does not bilieve there is any community in 
the Union where so many inhabitants are 
to be found in the same number of houses. 
"The people are remarkably industrious", 
he declares; "we find them hammering 
away at their trades from five o' clock in 
the morning until ten or twelve at night". 

11832 — Waling Company incorporated. 

1832 — Newark Daily Advertiser, now 
Star-Eagle, established. 

1833 — First bath house in Newark of 
which there is any record, in the New Jer- 
sey Museum, Market St. 

1833 — There were 1.542 dwelling houses 
in Newark, as against 141 in 1777. 

il833 — A visitor ifrom Schenectady, N. 
Y., who had been in Newark ten years be- 
fore, writes that he "found things wonder- 
fully altered; entire new streets laid out, 
crowded with tenements, elegant rangers cf 
buildings put up several stories in height, 
and its strong arm of industry visible on 
whichever side the visitor turns his eyes". 

1833 — President Andrew Jachson visit 



N'ewark, accompanied by Vice-President 
Van Buren. afterwards president. On June 
14th. 

1834 — New Jersey Railroad opened. 
1834 — Newark was made a port of entry. 
1834 — First Dutch Reformed Church 
established. 

1834 — First attempt to number the buil- 
dings in their respective street. A private 
enterprise, conducted by Jonathan Rey- 
nolds, of Halsey street. House owners to 
pay :for it, at a rate of about ten cents a 
number. 

1835 — Estimated population: 

Free white Americans 10.542 

Irish population (abont) 6.000 

English and Scotch 1,000 

German (about) 300 

Free people of color 359 



Total 18.201 

1835 — iMorris and Essex Railroad opened. 
1835 — Export to southern ports of the 

U. S., South America and West Indies over 

$8,000,000. 

1535 — There were twelve hotels in 
Newark. 

1835 — There were eighteen churches in 
Newark. 

1835 — Whaling ve^isel from Newark 
returned after voyage of twenty-seven mon- 
ths with a cargo of 3,000 barrels of whale 
oil and 15,000 pounds of whalebone. 

1835 — Newark Medical Association or- 
ganized. 

1836 — Newark incorporated as a city. 
ilS36 — Population was 19.732. 

1836 — Common Council engaged room 
in Newark Academy; meetings were after- 
wards held at the Academy. Park House 
and Market House. Subseuently, church at 
16 Clinton street, was engaged for one year, 
for the use of the city authorities for four 
days a week. 

il836 — Streets of Newark were lighted 
with oil lamps. 

1536 — Number of slaves in Newark, 
twenty. 

1836 — A school system tor poor children 
established. 

1836 — City was divided into four wards, 
known as the North. South, Bast and West 
Wards, four aldermen representing a Ward. 

1836. August 24 — Corner Stone of the 
Court House and City Hall laid. 

1837 — Fire Department: 



10 — 



First Presbyterian 

Trinity Church. 
Hill Street 

(Lonvbardy Park. 
106 Market Street. 
- Railroad Depot, 



Fire Engine No. 1 - 
Church. 

Fire Engine No. 2 

iFire Engine No. 3 - 

iFire Engine No. 4 - 

iFire Engine No. 5 - 

Fire Engine No. 6 
Market :Street. 

Fire Engine No. 7 — Hendenberg's Fact- 
ory, in Plane Street. 

Hook & Ladder .No. 1 — lOS Market 
Street (iMuseum). 

Hose Company No. 1 — 106 Market Street 
(iMuseum). 

1S37 — First German Presbyterian Church 
established, 42 Bank street. 

'1S37 — Common Council met in Council 
Chamber. Museum Building. 

1837 — Morris Canal opened. 

1S3S — First High School established in 
Newark. 

1838 — Court House and City Hall de- 
dicated. 

11840 — Still three slaves in Newark. 

1843 — First public school house erected. 

1844 — M/t. Pleasant Cemetery incor- 
porated. 

1845 — Registered and enrolled tonnage. 

shipping 9. 458 tons. 

Steamboats and boats under 7.139 tons. 



Total 16..597 tons. 

1845 — New Alms House erected and 
about twenty acres of the farm on the west 
side of the Elizabeth Road were sold. 

1845 — Mutual Benefit Life Insurance 
company organized, 

1845 — Mayor and Common Council 
entered into a contract with the Aqueduct 
Company for furnishing a full and suf- 
ficient supply of water for extinguishing 
fires, for washing, working, cleaning and 
trying the fire engines, hose and other 
apparatus used — to be used for the extin- 
guishing of fires only. 

This was the first water contract the 
city entered into. 

,1846 — American Insurance Co.. incorpo- 
rated. 

1846. — December 25 — Newark Gas 
(Light Co., commenced the manufacture of 
gas, and the city street were lighted with it. 

1847 — Newark Library Association chart- 
ered. 

1848 — Protestant Foster Home esta- 
blished. 



1848 — A Fifth Ward was created and 
the aldermen divided into two classes-two 
to be elected annually in each ward for a 
period of two years. 

1848 to 1853 — Common Council used 
hall located on third story of Library Buil- 
ding, Market street. 

1848 — First .lewish Syuagogne. Congre- 
gation B'Nai .leshurun, established. 

1848-1849 — Influx of German political 
fugitives following the collapse of the Revo- 
lution of the Grand Duchy of Baden. 

1849 — The Newark Plank Road and 
Ferry Company incorporated. 

1849 — Newark Orphan Asylum incor- 
porated. 

1849-1850 — Cholera in Newark — 148 
deaths . 

1851 — Present school system established 
under a law authorizing the organization of 
a Board of Education. 

1851 — Sixth and Seventh Wards created, 
the aldermen being divided into two classes 
and there after one had to be elected 
annually. 

1852 — Two aldermen representing a 
ward. 

1853-54 — 'Market building over canal 
erected-second story of said building was 
used for Council Chamber, committee rooms, 
fire allarm bell, and east end of department 
for police station and city prison. 

1853 — Eighth Ward was created. 

1853 — 'Newark Clinton Plank Road Co., 
incorporated — Plank Road construction 
extending from Newark to Irvingtmi. 

1853 — St. Mary's Orphan Asylum incor- 
porated. 

1854 — Newark Catholic Institute incor- 
porated. 

1854 — Ninth Ward created. 

1855 — Fairmount Cemetery incorporated. 
1855 — First of present system of evening 

school established. 

1855 — Woodland Cemetery incorporarted. 

1855 — Firemen's Insurance Company in- 
corporated. 

1855 — Green Street German American 
School incorporated. 

1856 — Tenth and Eleventh Wards 
created. 

1857 — Newark granted a new charter. 
1857 — N. .1. Freie Zeitung established. 
1857 — Exempt Firemen's Association 

organized. 

1858-1859 — Notice of fire was given 



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from the tower, by waving a red flag in tlie 
day time, and a red light at night. 

1859 — First horse street railway com- 
pany incorporated. 

1859, September 14 — Arion Singing So- 
ciety organized. 

1860 March 20 — Newark Aqueduct Board 
created by an Act of Legislature. This Act 
Authorized the Mayor ,snd Cummon Council 
to purchase the property of the Newark 
Aqueduct Company including all their 
rights, fraiic-hises. lands and property, real 
and personal, for the sura of $150,000 
conveyance of the real estate consisted of 
eighteen tracts, including the Branch Brook, 
Spring lots and Mill properties along the 
Mill brook, several smaller tracts and the 
reservoir lot at Sprinfield and South Orange 
Avenueg. 

1800-1865 — During the Civil war, Newark 
not only sent thousands of men to the 
front, but was one of the main workshop of 
the North, turning out arms clothing etc., 
for the use of the soldiers engaged in the 
war. 

1860 — Number of buildings supplied with 
city water w.'is 1.6.36 — 1.371 were dwellings, 
and. 265 for purposes other than domestic. 

1860 — Twelfth Ward created. 

1861 — February 21 — Abraham Lincoln 
in Newark. 

1I86I — Thirteenth Ward created. 

ISfil — Hebrew Aid Society organized. 

1IS6I — On May 3rd, First Brigade leaves 
for Washington. 

1861" — Ste.im fire engines introduced 
into Newark. 

1864 — St. Peter's Orphan Asylum founded 
1864. September 24 — City Hall, corner 

Broad and William streets, opened. 

1865 — Y. M. C. A. organized. 

1865 to 1870 — Part of the city water 
supply was furnished by the .Morris Canal 
Co. 

1866 — There was held a Bi-Centennial 
Celebration of the settlement of Newark. 

1866 — G. A. R. Post No. 1. Dep't N. 
.J., organized. 

1866 — July 4 — N. J. Home Disabled 
soldiers. Seventh Avenue opened. 

1867 — St. Barnabas' H ospital incor- 
porated. 

1867 — 'St. Michael's Hospital chartered. 

1868 — May 10 — Boys' Lodging House 
and Cuildren's Aid Society organized. Asso- 
ciation Baseball Players organized. 



1868, March 17 — Newark Board of Trade 
founded. 

1868 — German Hospital incorporated. 

1869 — Newark Water Works at Belleville 
■ompleted. 

1809 — St. Vincent's Academy founded. 

1870 — Newark City Home established. 

1870 — City dispensary moved from ba- 
sement in City Hall. William Street, to 
Centre Market. 

1871 — Fourteenth and Fifteenth Wards 
created. 

1871, September — Women's Christian as- 
sociation organized. 

1872 — Sunday Call established. 

1872. AApril 18 — Home for the Frien- 
dless organized. 

1872 — Newark Industrial Exhibition. 

1872 August — Essex County Hospital, 63 
Camden Street, organized. 

1S73 — Seth Boyden Statute Association 
organized. 

1873 — Prudential Insurance Company 
organized. 

1874 — Newark Home-opathic Medical 
Union organized. 

1879, July — Salvage Corps organized. 

1880 — Eye and Ear Infirmary incor- 
• iirated. 

1880 December 28 — Unveiling monument 
of Phil. Kearny, General Grant, Sherman 
and Me Clellan present. 

1882 — First public arc lamps introduced. 

1882 — Free drawing school established. 

1882 — Newark City Hospital. 116 Fair- 
mount avenue, opened. 

1882, March 23 — St. Benedict's College 
chartered. 

1883 — Newark Evening News established. 
.1885 — Newark Technical school - esta- 
blished. 

1885 — Country Park System established. 

1886 — Old Curying ground given over 
for public purposes, and bones of settlers 
removed to Fairmount Cemetery, in this 
and years immediately following. 

1887 — Hebrew Orphan Osylum opened 
at 232 Mulberry street. 

1887 March — Newark District Telegraph 
Co., organized. 

1888 — Free Public Library incorporated. 

1889 — Dedication of Newark Aqueduct 
property at Branch Brook for public park. 

1889 — Gottfried Krneger Home for Aged 
Alen organized. 



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ilS90, May 14 — Unveiling monument of 
Setii Boyden. 

1S!)0 — Present water plant purchased by 
the city. 

1892 — First of new I'ruiiential buildings 
erected. 

1893 — Number of wards reduced to nine. 

1894 — First eletric street cars on Broad 
Street. 

1895 — Number of wards increased to 
fifteen. 

1896 — Movement of purification of 
Passaic River started by Newark Board of 
Trade. 

1898, May 2 — First Regiment New .Jersey 
Volunteers for Spanish-American War left 
.Newark for Sea Girt; returned home Sept- 
ember 26. 

1900 — St. James' Hospital incorporated. 

1901 — New City Hospital completed. 
1904 — Shade Tree Commission esta- 
blished. 

1906 — Estaiblishment Municipal Bureau 
of Statistical Information. 

1906 November — First automobile fire 
engine introduced in Newark. 

1906. December 20 — Opening of the new 
City Hall. 

1906 — Number of wards increased to 
sixteen. 

11907 — New Court House completed. 

1907 — First city play grounds. 

1907 — Small Board of Education esta- 
blished. 

1907 — Smoke Abatement Department 
established. 

1908 — Mutual Benefit Life Insurance 
Company's new building completed. 

1908 — Municipal Lighting Plant esta- 
sblished in new City Hall. 



1908 — Civil service adopted-method of 
adoption declared unctmstitutional. 

1909 — Newark Maiseum Association in- 
corporated. 

1909 — Municipal Employment Bureau 
established. 

1909 — First automobile ambulance in- 
troduced. 

1910 — Civil Service adopted by the City 
of Newark — by a vote of the people. 

1900 — First municipal dental clinics 
established. 

1910, November 26 — High street factory 
fire, causing a loss of twenty-seven lives. 

1910 — Firemen's Insurance Company's 
new building completed. 

il911. May 30 — Unveiling by ex-President 
Roosevelt under auspices of Liacoln Post, 
No. 11, G. A. R.. of Lincoln Monument at 
Court House Plaza, bec|uesthed to the City 
of Newark by Amos H. Van Horn. 

1911 — First City Plan Commission ap- 
pointed. 

1911, November 26 — Opening of Man- 
hattan and Hudson Terminal Eletric High 
Speed Line, Park Place and Centre street. 

1912, October 30 — Opening of 6th Pre- 
cint Police Station. 

■1912 — Civil Service adopted by School 
Distriat of Newark by a vote of the people. 

1912, November 2 — Unveiling of Wash- 
ington Monument, Washington Park be- 
questhed to the City by Amos H. Van Horn. 

1913 — Erection new Board of Health 
Building, William street. 

1913 — Erection of New Alms House, 
South Orange. 

1913 — Erection Nurses' Home. City 
Hospital. 

1914. August — Sub. committees of the 
Committee of One Hundred selected. 



N. B. 



Harrison is joined with Newark by bridges. 




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Che Cundari' Biography 



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Ml-. Anthony Cundari was born in Montepaone (Catanzaro) on 
March 10th 1884. He at the tender age of twelve entered in the profes- 
sional career under the guidance of his father a skillful gentlemen's tailor 
and Cutter to whom he associated himself and then he succeeded in winn- 
ing the patronage of his customers and other friends, establishing the 
supremacy of his shop not only in the own country but in the surrounding 
countries as well. 




(CTJNDARI BUILDIXG) 

Mr. Cundari, lover of progress, in 1906 took a regular geometrical 
course by correspondence with the famous Pasanisi's Milan Cutting 
School winning the diploma of Teacher of Cutting and the praises of the 
Direction in the Periodical "Pattern & Fashions" entitling him to colla- 
borate in said Periodical. For one year he continued to keep hi^^h the na- 
me of his shop when in 1907. anxious to know the world and acquire a new 
knowledge of the cutting and designing trade he emigrated to America, 
landing in Harrison, N. J. He was employed in a small shop of Newark, 
to get acquainted with American methods and after few months he wont 
in New York where he enjoined the cutting school of Prof. G. Rosa, as this 
was his main aim of his coming in this country. There he displayed mar- 

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velous intelligence and great power of instutition as he was ever the first to 
grasp the perfect theories of Rosa's system. He in a very short time 
learned all the designing and cutting methods, the production of every 
pattern, the perfect fit, the correction of defects, the grading of patterns 
winning not only the acclamation of all the teachers of Rosa's school but 
the directorship of the Succursal for the State of N. J. as well. 



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THE STOKK 

Mr. Cundari with the enterprising nature that always has distin- 
guished himself moved the Cutting School from Newark to Harrison, at 
N.o 14 N. 3rd. St., and on March 16th 1909 he solemnized the inaugura- 
tion with the presence of many teachers and a multitude of friends. In the 
same time he while aiming to embetter his position, established a fine 
Gent's Tailor Shop at N.o UN. 4th St., (the very centre of Harrison) 




where with his kind manners and his ability has won the patronage of a 
large number of refined customers who appreciate him immensely. On 
April 5th 1909 Mr. Curdaii was chosen as member of th? Jury of the In- 
ternational Accademy of Italian Tailors of New York and on August 11th 
1910 he received the International Diploma ''ad onorem." for his skill hi 
Designing and Cutting. 




CUTTING ROOM 

On August 14th 1910, boasting of a large number of friends and ac- 
quaintances he tried to organize the Progressive Cutters and Tailors So- 
ciety of the State of New Jersey and on January 29th 1911 he was nomi- 
nated President. Mr. Cundari in July 1911 was compelled to return to his 




WORKING ROOM 

native land, where he married the distinct Miss Carolina D'Amico, and in 
October of the same year he was again among his friends in Harrison, 
where he incorporated the Society founded by him with the Order of Sons 
of Italy obtaining the name "Loggia Progressiva Tagliatori-Sarti N. 127" 
of which he was solemnly nominated Venerabile, and on May 4th 1913 he 
was presented with an artistic parchment, as remembrance of his efforts 

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for the welfare of the Society. In the year 1912 Mr. Riggio. studious of 
historic happenings wrote ''The Portughese Revolution" which he dedicat- 
ed to Mr. Cundari and his kind wife, and in November 1912 the Interna- 
tional Accademy of Cutting of New York selected Mr. Cundari as chief 
collaborator for the Review, "II Sarto," conferring him the title of Pro- 
fessor for his efficiency in the collaboration and for his splendid profes- 
sional merits. Mr. Cundari is owner of a very fine three story building 
situated at N.o 13 North 4th St., where he keeps his shop and his Cutting 
School, furnished with all modern improvements, and is such the esteem 
in which he is held in Harrison that he was chosen as treasurer of a new 
Italian Instutition called "Savoy Building & Loan Association." 




CUTTING SCHOOL DEP. 



Mr. Cundari. in December 1915, was nominated Grand Delegate of 
"Ordine Sons of Italy." 

In March 1916, Mr. Cundari was nominated a Member Honary of 
the Accademy "L. Bernardi" International Society of Professors and 
Teachers of Cutting of Buenos Aires (Argentine). 

We wish to mention also that Mr. Cundari in 1906 was nominated 
Delegate of the Italian Red Cross Society from the Regional Committee 
of Bari and he was very scrupolous in the discharge of his duty. 



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PRIMA CASA ITALO-AMERICANA 

PER LO STUDIO E LA PROPAGANDA DELL'ARTE DEL TAGLIO 

PREMIATA SCUOLfl MCCflDEHIA Dl TflQLIO PER 5ARTI 
"G. RDSA" 

(FON data in new YORK, l902) 

Sede principale: 1 KING STREET. NEW YORK 

Su CURSALl: NEWARK - HARRISON, N. J. - BROOKLYN - POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. - PANAMA 



"ll_ SARTO" GlORNALE Dl MODA 

p u BB ;_iCAZio N e; xr I m eistra le: 

DIPLOMA E MEDAGUIE D'ARGENTOE Dl BRONHO, "TORINO IS11 



New Yor!:, March ?,rd. 1916 



Mil Dear Mr. CL'NDARl. 



Your idea of publishing- a booklet in the English language in occa- 
sion of the 250th Anniversary of the foundation of the City of Newark, 
N. J., has been welcomed with favor and admiration, and we wish to put 
at your disposal, from this beginning, if it is needed, our modes.t ability to 
help you obtain the scope prefixed, so to prove to the Americans the devel- 
opment of our School and your Branch. 

That the success of your initiative is assured, has been proved by the 
unlimited trust and respect you enjoy over there, and the honor to the Di- 
rector of an Italian School of cutting (the only one of the kind) in the 
State of New Jersey, and the owner of the largest and most up to date 
Tayloring establishment in Harrison, N. J. 

Please have. Professor, our most sincere wishes that your efforts be 
successful, so to prove once more to this land of our adoption the worth of 
our school, in respect to all the others. National and Foreign, and the 
proof that our help is less negligible, and preferred to any other of any 
nationality. 

Please accept the proof of our high esteem and consideration, with 
tl.j sure conviction that your efforts will be appreciated and admired, and 
that your mei'its will go to affirm once more the triumph of the common 
ideals. 

The General Director, 

Prof. G. ROSA 
G. GENTILE. Seer. 

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MASON 8c HANSON 

WOOLENS AND TAILORS TRIMMINGS 

79-81 SPRING STREET 



Mr. A. CUNDARI, 

13 N. 4.a Street 

HARRISON, N. J. 

Neiv York, April 3rd, 1916 
Dear Sir :- 

It is just about 7 seven years since you began to use Mason & Han- 
son's goods. We write to congratulate you on your success and to thank 
you for that part of your business which we have enjoyed. 

We have watched your method and your growth with a great deal of 
interest, for your methods are unusual among tailors and your steady 
gi'owth has been remarkable. 

You seem to believe in thoroughly advertising your business and in 
keeping the standard of your clothes up to what you claim for them in 
your advertising. Its a policy that will continue to increase your business 
because it satisfies your customers. 

We thank you again for your favors and with heartiest good wishes 
for your continued success, remain. 

Yours rcn/ tridij. 
MASON & HANSON. 



HARRISON, N. J. 



To Mr. ANTHOXY CUNDARI, Treasurer 

Be it resolved by the Bor.rd of Directors of the 
Savoy Buildins & Loan Association 



Juhi 9th, 1916 



It is now close to four years since the Savoy Building & Loan Associa- 
tion began its career. During that period, the officers of the Association 
have given their most careful attention to every detail of the work, with- 
out compensation for the most part, and with the greatest diligence Most 
especially does this apply to the Treasurer of the Association. Mr. An- 
thony Cundari. He has freely given his time under the most pressing cir- 
cumstances of business, and has repeatedly refused compensation for his 
services. 

The Directors of the Association appreciate thoroughly, at all times, 
his effort and his strictest honesty, and they trust, sincerely that at no 
time will he be called' upon to make the sacrifice of having their Treas- 
urer, Anthony Cundari. discontinue his connection with the Association. 
Not only has he completed his services as Treasurer with the greatest of 
ability and satisfaction, but as a member of the Board of Directors, he 
has, at all times, stood for what is most fair, without prejudice and with- 
out partiality towards anyone. 

We take pride in passing this Resolution commending the services of 
Mr. Cundari in every respect, and trust that he shall continue to honor 
this position with us for a good many years. 

G. INBRIGLIO, President 
.1. DI SABATO, Secretary 





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Csme iD early. Hoid is the time to place your order for a Suit, Ooerboal, Cutou^ay or full Dress Suit. 
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